Category: News

You have to be kidding me, right? Apple lawyers told this guy to stop selling his wooden iPad cutting boards?

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Susan Maushart lived out every parent’s fantasy: She unplugged her teenagers. For six months, she took away the Internet, TV, iPods, cell phones and video games. The eerie glow of screens stopped lighting up the family room. Electronic devices no longer chirped through the night like “evil crickets.” And she stopped carrying her iPhone into the bathroom.

The result of what she grandly calls “The Experiment” was more OMG than LOL — and nothing less than an immersion in RL (real life).

As Maushart explains in her recent book “The Winter of Our Disconnect” (Penguin, $16.95), she and her kids rediscovered small pleasures — like board games, books, lazy Sundays, old photos, family meals and listening to music together instead of everyone plugging into their own iPods.

You know times are hard when people are hacking into Farmville servers and stealing virtual cash. I thought about making a “virtual jail” or a sentenced to “hard labor in Farmville” joke here but going to real jail for stealing virtual money is funny enough on its own.

Mitchell’s story reads like a textbook bungled burglary. He hacks into a Zynga server, running popular online card game Zynga Poker, and steals 400 billion of the game’s betting chips, which have an official worth of around $12 million.

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“I’m robbing you sir….”
“Are you sure?”
Lmao the strangest conversation of someone robbing a convenience store.

This is how I want to make my entrance to the next outdoor barbecue I go to. I come tearing down the street on my bike, a scion slams into me, I do a kart-wheel, land it, and casually walk over to the grill. “So, are the burgers ready?”

The Dolphin Man Denied Record – Hill Taylor stunned the crowd at a university event by completing the 50m backstroke in an astonishing 23.1 seconds – almost a second faster than the world record.